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Quote of the day—Ed Suspicious

The only constant in gun deaths is the presence of guns. Remove the guns you remove the gun deaths. Sounds great to me.

Ed SuspiciousMay 11, 2014Comment to John Oliver nails it on gun control[Ahhh yes, the great “gun death” argument. As if everyone that dies from a gunshot wound is a tragedy and there is no benefit to gun ownership.

Don’t ever let anyone tell you that no one wants to take away your guns.—Joe]

I believe that “air” is also a constant, unless murder is conducted in a vacuum. So, removing air would also remove the gun deaths. Or maybe footwear. Or trigger fingers. Remove them all, just to be sure. For the children.

Note that the pretend hand-wringing over “gun death” is coming from the very same people who warn that there are far too many human beings on planet Earth already, that the population needs to be reduced by several billion.

Can anyone else explain this seeming hypocrisy, i.e. can you find the consistency? It exists, but I’m almost tired of explaining it.

We can bring twitter to you, then. Here’s one from a friend of mine. You can find him elsewhere if you wish;“The perverse pleasure of judging another person is a booby prize. If you don’t wake up, not only can you not change, it can destroy you both.”

Wow! I’ve been banned? Where? I’ve never tried to post anywhere but here and Robb’s blog. That’s pretty funny if people are banning me. Beyond you and Robb, I only read a couple of other blogs on occasion. I’ve never tried to post on them. They never really say anything interesting enough to comment on.

The purpose ubu serves is that of irritant, as is clearly demonstrated in the “hand grenade” comment below. If she were to retire to a blog of her own, she’d still be required to come here and poke at us, so there’d be little point in another blog.

The Dark Side relies on generating irritation in its perspective subjects, and so it is an important role which must be served. It is imperative; otherwise the whole mess just falls apart and evaporates in the fire of truth.

I’ve been trying to convince ubu, through increasingly gentle prodding, to stop serving her appointed role and take up allegiance with the cause of freedom, but it is a tricky process that rarely succeeds.

Still, it is our obligation to lead by example. Unfortunately I have not been a very good example, as I’ve “yelled” at her many times in the past (falling for the irritation trick myself, you see). Thus it will take a lot more time, if ever it is to have any success.

My opinions of you and some of the others have changed over the years. I see you as rather comical yet thoughtful. I like that you actually think about things and don’t respond in some doctrinaire way. It’s refreshing. (There are too many who seem to just spout the party line — just like the anti’s do.)

THAT is the point; firearms have been a “great equalizer” in that an 80 pound granny can be on fairly equal ground with a 250 pound linebacker in a fight, if she’s packing heat.

My goodness; the Founders talked about this very thing. It’s as if there were a force that keeps people from remembering it.

Besides; we have no need to wonder what it would be like if everyone were limited to spears. The Roman Empire did a pretty good job of conquering and killing en masse using just such technology. Nor is weapon restriction by government in order to suppress the people a phenomenon restricted exclusively to the age of gunpowder. Laws against knives, swords or bows were not (and are not) terribly rare. Need we continue with this silly distraction?

Why should a small, weak, 80-lb. granny have to rely on a firearm that only creates a small hole in its target? Why can’t she throw a hand grenade instead? Hand grenade don’t weigh as much as firearms do!

Ubu52 – if your grandma has the upper arm strength to lob the grenade far enough so that the shrapnel won’t kill her, and if she’s willing to shred more furniture with the hand grenade than with a handgun, and if she can make sure that she throws the grenade in an area where the shrapnel can be reliably contained (say, a basement) and not hit any innocents in that room), then sure, why not?

I’ve _professionally_trained_ with a spear (heck, used to get paid by you to train others how to use a spear – whaddya think a bayoneted rifle is?), and have reasonable agility and upper body strength.

On the other hand, my sister with serious joint issues, under five feet tall, and no training, might not fair so well against some young, muscular thug.

Yet, the first time she picked up a handgun (at nearly 30 years old), she was able to keep all her shots well within a torso sized target at 21 feet.

The people are a constant.
Death is a constant
We should ban dead people!

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